Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Community Board Reform

Harlem Bus Lane Foes: Good Streets for Bus Riders “Trampling Our Liberties”

By Stephen Miller | Apr 15, 2015 | 34 Comments

Community board meetings in central Harlem have officially gone off the deep end. A DOT plan to extend bus lanes and add turn restrictions on 125th Street was shouted down last night by the same hecklers who have filibustered street safety improvements at Community Board 10 for years. Noticeably absent from last night’s meeting: People who ride the bus on 125th Street. […]

Victims’ Families to Electeds: End the Obstruction of Safe Streets on the UWS

By Stephen Miller | Jan 22, 2015 | 17 Comments

Years of frustration with the leadership of Manhattan Community Board 7 boiled over at a traffic safety forum on the Upper West Side last night. Twice during the event, neighborhood residents who lost family members to traffic violence called on elected officials not to reappoint Dan Zweig, who has co-chaired CB 7’s transportation committee for […]

Morningside Ave. Road Diet Set for July After CB 10 Chair Urges Support

By Stephen Miller | May 15, 2014 | 8 Comments

With new, clear marching orders from chair Henrietta Lyle after nine months of stalled deliberations, Community Board 10’s transportation committee voted unanimously last night to support a road diet plan [PDF] for a speeding-plagued stretch of Morningside Avenue. Pending expected support from the full board next month, DOT is scheduled to implement the safer street design […]

After Quick Work by CB 7 and DOT, Safety Fixes Debut at 96th and Broadway

By Stephen Miller | May 13, 2014 | 8 Comments

After the deaths of Cooper Stock, Alexander Shear, and Samantha Lee at or near the intersection of 96th Street and Broadway shook Upper West Siders in January, DOT promised fixes to an intersection that locals complained had become even more dangerous to cross after a reconstruction project just a few years before. This morning, the city debuted those changes, including […]

Morningside Road Diet Supporters Try to Find Common Ground With CB 10

By Stephen Miller | Mar 14, 2014 | 21 Comments

Wednesday night, Harlem road diet supporters and opponents met in an attempt to find common ground on what can be done to improve safety on Morningside Avenue. The move comes in advance of DOT releasing a second plan for the street, after its first design encountered opposition from Community Board 10. The plan to calm traffic […]

Bed Stuy CB Chair: Street Safety “Not an Issue in Our Community”

By Stephen Miller | Feb 27, 2014 | 16 Comments

Earlier this month, Brooklyn Community Board 3 voted against a 20 mph Slow Zone in Clinton Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant. In a recent interview, CB 3 Chair Tremaine Wright told Streetsblog that the board voted against it in part because dangerous driving is not an issue in the neighborhood, and Slow Zone supporters did not demonstrate that […]

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